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- 1. Who am I?CEO of: In its 21st year as the Midlands business network with a focus on sustainable development as a key business issue. Skanska - MEBC Board member The only branch in the UK of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Skanska – BCSD-UK Board member © David Middleton BCSD-UK/MEBC 2012
- 2. Statistics Our home Diameter 12,753 km (7,926 miles) Rotation Period with respect to Sun (Length of Day) 24 hrs Mass: 5.98x10^24 kilograms(6.5e21 tons) Rotation Period with respect to stars (Sidereal Day) 23 hrs 56 min Period about the Sun (Length of a Year) 365 days 5 hrs Minimum Distance from Sun 146 million km (91 million miles)
- 3. Statistics It’s the onlyone we’ve got ….
- 4. ….so you’d thinkwe’d take care of it! If we continue to behave as we do now, we are likely to go the way of other civilisations
- 5. Olmecs South-central America (Mexico) 1400 BC Demise – probably climate change
- 6. Anasazi or Ancestral Puebloans USA (where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah meet) 1200 BC Demise- population explosion
- 7. Nabateans Jordan, Canaan and Arabia Sixth century BC Demise – changing trade patterns
- 8. Aksumites What isnow Ethiopia (home of the Queen of Sheba) First century AD Demise – climate change and over farming
- 9. Clovis American 10,000 BC Demise – over hunting and/or possible meteor hit
- 10. Us Global up to 2012 and still going BUT
- 11. Our damaging ImpactOn The Planet
- 12. Our damaging ImpactOn The Planet
- 13. Human development inthe Anthropocene WBCSD Prof. Johan Rockström Stockholm Resilience Centre 24th April 2012
- 14. Atmospheric CO2 concentration Etheridge et al. Geophys Res 101: 4115-4128 IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 15. Northern hemisphere averagesurface temperature Mann et al Geophys Res Lett 26(6): 759-762 IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 16. Atmospheric N2O concentration Machida et al Geophys Res Lett 22:2921-2925 IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 17. Ozone depletion JD Shanklin British Antarctic Survey IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 18. Natural climactic disasters IGBPsynthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 19. Fully exploited fisheries FAOSTAT 2002 Statistical database IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 20. Tropical rainforest and woodland loss Richards, the Earth as transformed by human action, Cambridge University Press IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 21. Species extinctions Wilson, the Diversity of Life. IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004
- 23. Report warns ofglobal food insecurity as climate change destroys fisheries Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan expected to be hardest hit by decline in fish stocks in coming decades •Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent •guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 September 2012 08.00 BST
- 24. Our damaging ImpactOn The Planet
- 25. Now, you’d think if we were the intelligent species we think we are, in the 20 years I’ve been doing this stuff, we’d have done better than that.
- 27. The “Dostrich Theory” The true story of the demise of the dinosaurs
- 28. Accepted history Incoming extra- terrestrial “lump” hits planet earth
- 32. Now – atlast – the true story!
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- 40. Definition: Dostrich – adinosaur behaving like an ostrich
- 41. Question: We cansee the problems we confront – but are we preferring to behave like a dostrich – putting our heads in the sand and hoping it might go away.
- 42. BBC October 31st2006 The world cannot afford to wait before tackling climate change, the UK prime minister has warned. A report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern suggests that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%. But taking action now would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product, the 700-page study says. Tony Blair said the Stern Review showed that scientific evidence of global warming was "overwhelming" and its consequences "disastrous".
- 43. Dr Stewart Davies. Former Business Commissioner of the now disbanded Sustainable Development Commission. Speaking in Birmingham December 2009 “At a stroke of a pen, cheques of unheard of amounts were written virtually overnight to save the banks. Three million million pounds. So where is the same commitment to respond to the findings of Nick Stern?”
- 44. Gold News March2008 And on average, the World Bank economists found, "governments spent an average of nearly 13% of GDP cleaning up their financial systems" as a result of the bail-out programs they tried to implement.
- 45. Priorities Save the banks = 13% of GDP Respond to climate change = 1% of GDP
- 48. £4 + trillion S:UK Gov.
- 49. 2050 £4 +trillion Where we need to be. 9b people living on our planet. With enough food and clean water for them S: UK Gov. all; poverty eradicated; everyone with The estimated global value access to energy and sanitation. of the low carbon S: (WBCSD) environmental products and services we need to get from where we are to where we need to be. The challenge 2012 Where we are now. 7b people; polluting; wasting; critical resources under ever increasing pressure – like water; demand for energy outstripping growth in production; many people without energy and clean water; rife poverty
- 50. Creating a differentway of living. A sustainable way of living. Potentially the biggest business opportunity since the industrial revolution
- 51. Producing goods andservices that enable us to live in a low carbon, sustainable society
- 52. Producing goods andservices that enable us to live in a low carbon, sustainable society That generates business for businesses and creates jobs
- 53. Producing goods andservices that enable us to respond to environmental challenges Which creates That generates wealth via business for taxes and businesses and enables us to creates jobs be a socially conscious, sustainable society
- 54. Environmental Producing goodsand services that enable us to respond to environmental challenges Environment – economic – social Which creates = 3 “pillars” of generates That wealth via Economic Social business for sustainable taxes and businesses and development enables us to creates jobs be a socially conscious, sustainable society
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- 57. For example, thevalue of offshore windfarms in the Phase 3 UK offshore wind industry development is estimated at well in excess of £110 billion. But all the kit is made in Germany and Holland leaving “only” installation and support for UK companies.
- 58. The same appliesin the retrofit of the UK housing stock. BUT pvs are imported –mostly from China – giving the real value – the manufacturing value – of UK market development to overseas companies.
- 59. The Chancellor and the Treasury simply do not “get it” No DECC DEFRA Education Transport No 10 No 11 11
- 62. The Energy Act2011 includes provisions for the new 'Green Deal', which intends to reduce carbon emissions cost effectively by revolutionising the energy efficiency of British properties. The new innovative Green Deal financial mechanism eliminates the need to pay upfront for energy efficiency measures and instead provides reassurances that the cost of the measures should be covered by savings on the electricity bill. ECO A new Energy Company Obligation will integrate with the Green Deal, allowing supplier subsidy and Green Deal Finance to come together into one seamless offer to the consumer.
- 64. Birmingham As AGreen City We aim to accelerate Birmingham’s transition to being one of the world’s leading green cities. We are setting up a Green Commission, led by the Cabinet Small Group and we’re in Member for a Green, Safe and Smart City. it
- 66. David Middleton 0121 693 8338 [email protected]
Editor's Notes
- #15 The biophysical responses of the Earth System show many of the same features as the Great Acceleration in the human enterprise.The hockeystick pattern applies all key indicators that form the basis for human well being and environmental health.
- #17 Nitrous oxide makes up an extremely small amount of the atmosphere - it is less than one-thousandth as abundant as carbon dioxide. However, it is 200 to 300 times more effective in trapping heat than carbon dioxide.Nitrogen is removed from the atmosphere by plants and converted into forms such as ammonia, which can then be used by the plants. This is called nitrogen fixation. At the same time, micro-organisms remove nitrogen from the soil and put it back into the atmosphere - denitrification - and this process produces nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide also enters the atmosphere from the ocean.Nitrous oxide has one of the longest atmosphere lifetimes of the greenhouse gases, lasting for up to 150 years.Burning fossil fuels and wood is one source of the increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide, however the main contributor is believed to be the widespread use of nitrogen-base fertilisers. Sewage treatment plants may also be a major source of this gas.Since the Industrial Revolution, the level of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere has increased by 16%.